Overview

• On July 15, prison staff at A Lama and other facilities staged nationwide demonstrations to demand urgent safety reforms.
• The protests follow a July 8 incident in Sevilla II where an inmate with a record of violence and sexual offenses physically and sexually assaulted a prison psychologist.
• Unions ACAIP-UGT and CSIF are insisting on installing panic buttons in technical offices, revising inmate classification protocols, granting staff legal authority status and boosting personnel levels.
• Spain’s penitentiary system has over 4,000 vacancies and chronic overcrowding, contributing to an average of one aggression against staff every 16 hours.
• Badajoz prison reported fewer attacks after reducing its inmate population by 25%, but nationwide measures remain unimplemented by the administration.